On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hoi, > > > > Sorry Fred, I do not like your post. The quote has it wrong because > > research shows that it is factually wrong. Wikipedia has a better > > coverage > > at a superior quality to the encyclopaedia that went before. The only > > thing > > I can agree with is that it is available at a much lower cost; it is the > > cost of having access to the Internet. > > > > As a consequence why should I read it ? > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > If systemic biased editing is not considered your statement would be > true. However, one of the side effects of our volunteeristic methods is > that systemic bias resulting from editing by groups and interests with > numberless agendas is inevitable; not that Britannica was without certain > systemic biases. Wikipedia does not have good editorial control and can > never have it. Gresham's law is at work; no printed book has the beauty > and quality of the Lindisfarne Gospels; nothing made on a machine loom > compares remotely with Navajo weaving. > > Fred > > > > > > > On 26 July 2013 13:48, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> "As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much > >> lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to > >> Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people > >> experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from > >> them." > >> > >> > >> > http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reality/ > >> > >> Fred > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > Perhaps not as beautiful, but a lot fewer people would have clothing and blankets if we stuck only to that. I think the same is true of giving the entire world free access to a massive reference work, a project that twenty years ago would have been unthinkable. Todd -- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
